and was pastor at Ravenna. Oliio, 1822-28. He was professor of theology in Western Reserve college, Cleveland, Ohio, 1828-:i3, and president
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THE OUO WVESTERAI RESERVE COLLECE , HUDSOAI .OHIO.
of the college, 1830-33. He was actively in- terested in antislavery and published several ar- ticles on that subject. He died in Braintree, Ma>s., Sept. lo, 1SS3.
STORRS, Henry Randolph, representative, was born in Middletown, Conn. Sept. 3, 1787; brother of William Lucius Storrs (q.v.). He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1804. A.M., 1807. practised law in New York state, and was for five years judge in Oneida county. He was a Federalist representative from New Y'ork in the loth. IGth, and 18th-21st congresses, 1817-21, and 1823-31. He later settled in New York city, where he be- came an eminent lawyer. He died while visiting in New Haven. Conn.. July 29, 1837.
STORRS, Richard Salter, clergyman, was born in Braintree, Mass., Aug. 21. 1821; son of the Rev. Richard Salter and Harriet (Moore) Storrs. natives of Long Meadow, Mass.; grandson of the Rev. Richard Salter and Sarah (Williston) Storrs, and great-grandson of the Rev. John of Connecticut, a chaplain in the Revolution, and pastor for six years at Southold, Long Island, and Eunice (Conant) Storrs. His father (1787-1873), Williams college. 1807, Andover Theological seminary, 1810, served as a Congregational min- ister at Braintree, Mass., 1811-73; edited the Boaton Recorder, 1817-2.5: was associate editor of the Conyregationalist, ISoO-oG. and the author of several publications. Richard Salter Storrs, the thir<l, attended Monson academy, and was grad- uated from Amherst college. A.B., 1839, A.M., 1842, and from Andover Tiieological seminary, 1845, meanwhile studying law under Rufus Clioate, and teaching in Monson academy and Williston seminary. He was married, Oct. 1,1845, to Mary Elwell, daughter of the Rev. Francis and Sarah Hurd (Phillips) Jenks, of Boston, Mass. She died in Brooklyn. N.Y. Jan. 7, 1898. Of their children, Harriet Moore married Louis R. Packard, of Philadelphia, Pa.: Mary Jenks was married, June 11, 1874, to the Rev. Edward Benton Coe (q.v.); and Miriam Phillips married Philip Moen Washburn, of Worcester, Mass. He was ordained to the ministry of
Harvard Congregational church, Brookline.Mass.,
Oct. 22, 1845, and was pastor of the Church of the
Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y., from November, 1846,
until his resignation in November, 1899. when he
was made pastor emeritus, and succeeded by
the Rev. Harry P. Dewey. He refused the pas-
torate of the Old Brick church. New York city,
in 1875. Upon the 35th anniversary of liis instal-
lation in the Pilgrim church, the congregation
presented him with a purse of $35,000, and his
50th anniversary was marked by a week's cel-
ebration, during which the Manhattan Ministerial
association gave him a memorial loving-cup. and
the Hamilton club held a dinner and reception
in his honor. He was one of the founders of the
Independent in 1848, and was an associate edi-
tor until 1861, and in 1855 delivered the Graham
lectures at the Brooklyn institute. During the
civil war he was a staunch supporter of the
government. and upon the close of the war was one
of those commissioned immediately after Lee's
surrender to visit F<jrt Sumter, and re-raised the
stars and stripes over the fort. Dr. Storrs served
on the Brooklyn Park commission, 1871-79; lec-
tured on the method of preparation for preaching
at the Union Theological seminary, New York
city, 1875, and was Ely lecturer in 1879, and L.P.
Stone lecturer at Princeton Theological seminary,
in 1879. He was president of the Long Island
Historical society from 1875-1900; president of the
A.B.C.F.M. of the Congregational church. 1887-96,
succeeding the Rev. Mark Hopkins; correspond-
ing member of the Massacliusetts Historical
society, and in September, 1899, president of the
international convention of Congregational
ministers at Boston, Mass., receiving an ovation
at the close of his address. He received the hon-
orary degree of D.D. from L'nion college, 1853,
and from Harvard, 1859; that of LL.D. from the
College of New Jersey, 1874; L.H.D. from
Columbia, 1887, and was a trustee of Amherst
college, 1863-1900. In addition to his many
orations, he is the author of: Report on the
Revised Edition of the English Version of the
Bible; The Constitntion of the Human Said
(1856); Conditions of Success in Preaching u'ith-
out Notes (1875); Early American Spirit and
the Genesis of It (1875); Declaration of Indepen-
dence, and the Effects of It (1876): John Wycliffe
atid the First English Bible (1880); Recognition
of the Sujyerriatural in Letters and m Life (1881);
Manliness in the Scholar (1883); The Divine Ori-
gin of Christianity Indicated by its Historical
Effects (ISSi); The Prospective Advance of Cliris-
tian Missions (1885); Forty Years of Pastoral
Life (1886); The Broader Range and Outlook of
the Modern College Training (1887). and Bernard
of Clairaux (1803). Dr. Storrs died in Brook-
lyn, N.Y. June 5. 1900.
